Clavatula decorata | |
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Original drawing of a shell of Clavatula decorata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Clavatulidae |
Genus: | Clavatula |
Species: | C. decorata
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Binomial name | |
Clavatula decorata G.B. Sowerby III, 1916
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Clavatula decorata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.[1][2]
The length of the shell attains 21 mm, its width 8 mm.
(From the original description) The fusiform shell is one of striking character. The spire is acutely turreted and contains 10 whorls. The whorls are unusually concave, with a stout prominent keel, crossed by numerous oblong somewhat oblique white tubercles or short plicae, which are rendered more conspicuous by a brown intersecting spiral line.[3]
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Sierra Leone.